Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.